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In Depth: Why hasn't spam been stamped out yet?
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Your inbox is full of mail that casts aspersions on your man/ladyhood, wants you to buy prescription drugs online or promises to show you how to make money fast. Latest figures from McAfee suggest that a massive 92 per cent of all email is spam. That's a lot of luncheon meat. What's more, 67 per cent of American email users say that junk mail actively puts them off going online at all. Those aren't good statistics for 'email marketers'. So, who's doing it? There's no easy answer. Spam is delivered by many dubious characters, from email harvesters to black-hat marketers. We've delved into the murky world of the spammers to find out more. 40 brilliant ...
Steven Fry ends 'boring' Twitter clash
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Steven Fry has ended his feud with a fellow Twitterer, after the actor took offence to his Tweets being called 'boring'. Fry is one of the UK's most famous users of the micro-blogging service, so when he announced at the weekend that he may quit the site there was much furore, with even the BBC commenting on the situation. The original clash came when someone under the Twitter name @brumplum posted to @stephenfry, saying he "admired and adored" him but his Tweets were "a bit… boring". Fry replied to this seemingly throwaway comment with: "You've convinced me. I'm obviously not good enough. I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye everyone." Spat ...
Stephen Fry ends 'boring' Twitter clash
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Stephen Fry has ended his feud with a fellow Twitterer, after the actor took offence to his Tweets being called 'boring'. Fry is one of the UK's most famous users of the micro-blogging service, so when he announced at the weekend that he may quit the site there was much furore, with even the BBC commenting on the situation. The original clash came when someone under the Twitter name @brumplum posted to @stephenfry, saying he "admired and adored" him but his Tweets were "a bit… boring". Fry replied to this seemingly throwaway comment with: "You've convinced me. I'm obviously not good enough. I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye ...
Facebook wins £430m anti-spamming case
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Facebook has announced that it has won a major payout from internet marketer Sanford Wallace, after the site sued him for accessing people's accounts without their permission and subsequently spamming them. The payout of £430 million ($711 million) is said to be the second biggest ever of its kind and eclipses the £143 million ($234 million) damages Wallace had to pay to MySpace in 2008 for junk messages sent by his company. Facebook was awarded the biggest-ever 'spam' payout last year, when Canadian spammer Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital were ordered to pay $873 million (£533 million) to the site. Sanford Wallace has a chequered history when it ...
Mozilla announces Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download
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Mozilla has announced the arrival of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download, introducing several new features to the web browser. Although the majority of the tweaks are minor Mozilla has made improvements which will make web developers, add-on developers and users happy. While Mozilla wants you all to have a play with the Beta, it does note that "this release is considered to be stable [but] it's not a fully completed product so there may be some rough edges visually and with the user experience." Changes The list of changes is as follows: Users can now change their browser's appearance with a single click, with built in support for ...
Paramount: 'web piracy has gone from geek to sleek'
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Paramount has sent a damning letter to the FCC outlining its stance on online piracy and explaining why it is not just the computer literate who are downloading copyrighted content on the web. In the letter, the film distributor notes that it has evidence that following the worldwide release of Star Trek the movie was illegally downloaded by some 5 million IP addresses, each taking their files from one of six camcordered copies of the film. Piracy has advanced The letter also states that: "Just five years ago, one had to be computer literate and exceedingly patient to pirate movies. Today, literally anyone with an internet connection can do it. ...
